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post Mar 24 2004, 02:51 PM
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Do you use any limit of characters for domain names? Do you think www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com is too long?
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post Mar 24 2004, 02:59 PM
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It depends on who you are targeting... If your targeting SEs then long isn't a big problem just don't go excessive and seperate keywords with a -

If your targeting a human then they will hate you for making them type that much. Assuming they remember it.
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post Mar 24 2004, 03:06 PM
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www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com owes its existence to 63 character limit on domain names.

{ its a town in Wales UK }

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post Mar 24 2004, 03:08 PM
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Ugh. I'm soooo glad I've never had to post any mail to someone in that town...

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post Mar 24 2004, 03:12 PM
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Thats Wales for you.

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post Mar 24 2004, 11:18 PM
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I would advise something sensible instead of spam such as www.the-best-vacation-places-in-florida.com, etc. I usually avoid such domain names as I can be fairly sure of finding a spammy site underneath the spammy domain name.
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post Mar 24 2004, 11:48 PM
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QUOTE(meloeyello @ Mar 24 2004, 02:59 PM)
It depends on who you are targeting... If your targeting SEs then long isn't a big problem just don't go excessive and seperate keywords with a -

If your targeting a human then they will hate you for making them type that much. Assuming they remember it.

Who would target just the search engines and not humans?

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post Mar 25 2004, 07:17 AM
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Spammers for one, lol. When I do searches, I almost never click on long domain names simply because I know what kind of site it probably is. A #1 ranking on every search term would be of little value if enough people were like me and didn't click on those kinds of domain names. I think two words is usually the max for good domain names.
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